Author: Ysabel Viau Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 2923587081 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 250
Book Description
NOMAD-The Pursuit of Amélia Khan, Ysabel Viau's first novel, tells the story of a Canadian freelance writer and globetrotting adventurer. At the dawn of adolescence, Amélia narrowly escapes death: upon disembarking the car on her way to school, it explodes taking her father's life. After the traumatic event, Amélia finds solace in travelling. As her interests and work opportunities take her to Iceland, St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Berlin, Spain, New York and South Africa, Amélia also performs often perilous missions assigned anonymously. If she ignores the author or purpose of these tasks, Amélia trusts her infallible intuition and the unwavering support of Andrey, her long-time accomplice and tech prodigy, to execute them. She is unaware of the extensive plot in which she is involved
Author: Ysabel Viau Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 2923587081 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 250
Book Description
NOMAD-The Pursuit of Amélia Khan, Ysabel Viau's first novel, tells the story of a Canadian freelance writer and globetrotting adventurer. At the dawn of adolescence, Amélia narrowly escapes death: upon disembarking the car on her way to school, it explodes taking her father's life. After the traumatic event, Amélia finds solace in travelling. As her interests and work opportunities take her to Iceland, St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Berlin, Spain, New York and South Africa, Amélia also performs often perilous missions assigned anonymously. If she ignores the author or purpose of these tasks, Amélia trusts her infallible intuition and the unwavering support of Andrey, her long-time accomplice and tech prodigy, to execute them. She is unaware of the extensive plot in which she is involved
Author: Linda Civitello Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0470403713 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 448
Book Description
Cuisine and Culture presents a multicultural and multiethnic approach that draws connections between major historical events and how and why these events affected and defined the culinary traditions of different societies. Witty and engaging, Civitello shows how history has shaped our diet--and how food has affected history. Prehistoric societies are explored all the way to present day issues such as genetically modified foods and the rise of celebrity chefs. Civitello's humorous tone and deep knowledge are the perfect antidote to the usual scholarly and academic treatment of this universally important subject.
Author: Jerry H. Bentley Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521761628 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional studies of empires in the eastern and western hemispheres, crossroads areas such as the Indian Ocean, Central Asia, and the Caribbean, and sites of competition and conflict, including Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, trade, entrepreneurs, Asian religions, legal encounters, plantation economies, early industrialism, and the writing of history.
Author: Rebecca M. Empson Publisher: UCL Press ISBN: 1787351467 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 180
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Almost 10 years ago the mineral-rich country of Mongolia experienced very rapid economic growth, fuelled by China’s need for coal and copper. New subjects, buildings, and businesses flourished, and future dreams were imagined and hoped for. This period of growth is, however, now over. Mongolia is instead facing high levels of public and private debt, conflicts over land and sovereignty, and a changed political climate that threatens its fragile democratic institutions. Subjective Lives and Economic Transformations in Mongolia details this complex story through the intimate lives of five women. Building on long-term friendships, which span over 20 years, Rebecca documents their personal journeys in an ever-shifting landscape. She reveals how these women use experiences of living a ‘life in the gap’ to survive the hard reality between desired outcomes and their actual daily lives. In doing so, she offers a completely different picture from that presented by economists and statisticians of what it is like to live in this fluctuating extractive economy.
Author: Nandini Das Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110861681X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages :
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Bringing together original contributions from scholars across the world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several national or linguistic traditions, introducing readers to the global contexts of the genre. From wilderness to the urban, from Nigeria to the polar regions, from mountains to rivers and the desert, this book explores some of the key places and physical features represented in travel writing. Chapters also consider the employment in travel writing of the diary, the letter, visual images, maps and poetry, as well as the relationship of travel writing to fiction, science, translation and tourism. Gender-based and ecocritical approaches are among those surveyed. Together, the thirty-seven chapters here underline the richness and complexity of this genre.
Author: Nicola Di Cosmo Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108547001 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1284
Book Description
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity offers an integrated picture of Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppes during a formative period of world history. In the half millennium between 250 and 750 CE, settled empires underwent deep structural changes, while various nomadic peoples of the steppes (Huns, Avars, Turks, and others) experienced significant interactions and movements that changed their societies, cultures, and economies. This was a transformational era, a time when Roman, Persian, and Chinese monarchs were mutually aware of court practices, and when Christians and Buddhists criss-crossed the Eurasian lands together with merchants and armies. It was a time of greater circulation of ideas as well as material goods. This volume provides a conceptual frame for locating these developments in the same space and time. Without arguing for uniformity, it illuminates the interconnections and networks that tied countless local cultural expressions to far-reaching inter-regional ones.
Author: Charles Gallenkamp Publisher: Penguin Group ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 408
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The first full-blown account of Roy Chapman Andrews, a gun-toting, snake-hating fossil exploring scientist who discovered the velociraptor. Fighting sandstorms and bandits, political intrigue and civil wars, Andrews' search for dinosaurs is cloaked in a sweeping historical narrative.16 pp. photos.
Author: Stefan Berger Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 9783527325160 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 668
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Analytik von Naturstoffen, die jeder kennt: Die Autoren dieses Bandes beschränken sich nicht auf die nüchterne Abhandlung von Daten und Verfahren, sondern erzählen die wahrhaft inspirierenden Geschichten jedes ihrer Moleküle. Dabei ist der rein methodische Teil so ausführlich und exakt beschrieben, dass der Band hervorragend für Lehre und Studium geeignet ist. Übungsaufgaben mit Lösungen und das attraktive Layout machen das Buch zu einem Muss für jeden Organiker und Spektroskopiker und die, die es werden wollen.
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